Brewer's: Maguelone

or Magalo'na (the fair). Heroine of the romance called The History of the Fair Magalona, Daughter of the King of Naples, etc. Originally written in French. Cervantes alludes to it in Don Quixote. (See Peter Of Provence.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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